Chapter 14 Mingjian
Yao Yanyu saw this scene when she came back with Yao Yanen and his son after worshipping the order of the old man Zhang, Yun Yao stood on the plank road by the river with her arms crossed, looking at the mighty river and blowing the river breeze, and behind her kneeling were officials of Jiangning City.
What's going on? Yao Yan looked at Jin Linwei Yeqi who was standing behind Yun Yao in confusion. Nightshade only lowered her head slightly.
"The county lord? Why don't you go ashore for a tea break? Yao Yanyu approached Yun Yao and asked in a low voice.
Yun Yao glanced at the officials kneeling on the ground behind him, and sneered: "I can't get used to smelling this piece of decay, it's better to have the wind blowing on the river and the air is clean." β
Yao Yanyu felt the sweat in his heart, look at the sweat on the head of Yu Honglie, the fat prefect of Jiangning who is like Maitreya Buddha, and then look at the disdain on the face of the county lord of Yunyao, so he had to smile and say: "Since you can't get used to smelling this rotten breath, it's better to let them all disperse." β
Yun Yao didn't speak, Yao Yanyu raised her hand towards the prefect of Jiangning, and said: "Boss and all the adults, please get up, although the county lord and I went to Huzhou on the orders of the emperor, but it has nothing to do with the political affairs of Jiangning. Everyone has seen it, so please go back and get busy. β
"This ...... The lower officials and others also want to do their best to fulfill the friendship of the landlord. "Yu Honglie used to be Yao Yuanzhi's subordinate, and he naturally participated in the banquet where Yao Yanyu and Wei Zhang were engaged, and Yao Yanen is still serving in Jiangning, so he finally has some face.
Yao Yanyu hurriedly said: "My lord naturally has good intentions, but I really don't want to bother the local officials like this." Besides, Jiangning is also my home, and I will leave the matter of landlord friendship to the county lord. β
"This?" The prefect of Jiangning looked at Yao Yanen again.
Yao Yanen hurriedly arched his hand and said: "My lord's thoughts, Mrs. Fuguo will definitely remember it." Xia Guan also felt five inside. β
"Since Master Yao also said so, then the old man will follow it. There are also some local specialties, which are not valuable things, nothing more than eating and drinking, and please do not refuse the county lord and his wife. It's better to take it on board than to buy it elsewhere. β
Yao Yanyu felt that if she refused this again, she would really trample the face of the prefect of Jiangning into the mud, so she smiled and said, "In this way, it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate." Thank you for your kindness. β
When the prefect of Jiangning heard this, his face immediately smiled: "Madame is polite!" Madame rarely goes back to her parents' house once, and she always wants to taste the soil of our hometown. As he spoke, he hurriedly turned around, and was about to speak, but he felt dizzy and dizzy when he waved his hand, and after a stumble, he fell on the plank road with a 'snap'.
"Yo! What's going on? Yao Yanen was shocked, and hurriedly ordered left and right: "Quickly help the adults up!" β
"Wait." Yao Yanyu hurriedly stopped others from moving the Jiangning prefect who had suddenly fainted, and then took two steps forward and squatted down, reaching out to hold his pulse. After a while, Yao Yanyu turned her head and instructed Xiang Xu: "Bring my silver needle." β
Xiangzhi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned back to the cabin to get Yao Yanyu's needle bag, took a slender silver needle and handed it over. Yao Yanyu raised her hand and stabbed it in the temple of the prefect of Jiangning, gently twisting the needle while stabbing it in. However, after half a pillar of incense, the prefect of Jiangning woke up slowly, but as if he had a dream, he asked stupidly: "What's wrong with me?" β
Yao Yanyu accepted the silver needle and said helplessly: "The adult's health is not good, and I have been working hard again in recent days." In addition, I knelt for too long just now, and the blood supply in my head was insufficient, so I was a little dizzy when I turned around suddenly, and then I accidentally fell down...... This is actually very dangerous, if you don't do it, you will have a stroke and be paralyzed, or even lose your life. β
In fact, she still has some things that she is embarrassed to say clearly, that is, this fat old man was first frightened by the county lord of Yun Yao, and then heard that he received his heart and was greatly relieved, this fear is that the heart rate is naturally unstable, blood pressure rises, and then it is normal to feel dizzy and fall when he turns around.
"In this way, it was Madame who saved the life of the lower official!" The prefect of Jiangning said, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Yao Yanyu again, "Mrs. Xie's life-saving grace." β
"Well, you've been tired for the past few days, I'm afraid it's because I'm waiting to stay here. Speaking of which, it's also mine, no. It's just that adults will have to quit drinking in the future. Your illness is not accumulated in a day or two, so in the future, you should not only stop drinking, but also eat a lighter diet. Yao Yan said, and then instructed Xiang Zhi: "Give the adults ten Qingxin pills we brought." β
The prefect of Jiangning hurriedly bowed down to thank him again, and took a delicate glass bottle with a cork plugging the mouth of the bottle handed over by Xiang Zhi with both hands.
Yao Yanyu chuckled and said, "My lord, it's not good to work too hard, so please go back and rest." β
"It's really rude to go down! It's just a little bit of heart prepared by the lower officials, and I ask Mrs. to accept it. β
Yao Yanyu nodded, indicating that she could. The prefect of Jiangning glanced back at his subordinate officials. The subordinate officer hurriedly ordered his subordinates to carry the basket of souvenirs over. Ye Yan frowned, but still took those people to the boat at Yao Yanyu's signal.
The prefect of Jiangning didn't talk so much nonsense, seeing that everything was put away, he thanked Yao Yanyu again, and said some apologetic words before taking a group of subordinate officials to leave, and before leaving, he didn't forget to tell Yao Yanen: "If you need anything, just ask someone to go to me to get it." β
Yao Yanen was naturally courteous to this chief, and Yao Yanyu didn't want his brother to offend people, so he asked Yao Yanen to send the prefect and the adults out of the dock for him.
After some chaos, Yao Yanen took Yao Yanyu and Yun Yao to sit down in a restaurant called 'Hongyan Building' on the dock. Of course, this restaurant was contracted by Yao Yanen three days ago, and everything from the boss to the cook to the guy who served tea and water was carefully checked, and nothing was missed.
The largest private room upstairs is elegantly furnished, Yun Yao, Yao Yanyu, Yao Yanen and Mrs. Jiang each have a long strip in front of them, and the dishes are not complicated, but they pick up the most famous dishes in Jiangning City, four cold dishes, two meat and two vegetables, plus a sea bass soup with cabbage.
If it is said that Yao Yanen is doing things without leakage, he knew that Yunyao County Lord was coming, so he asked Yao Yanyi to inquire about all the county lord's dietary preferences in his heart, and after repeated selection, he finalized today's dishes. This quiet homely meal made Yun Yao eat comfortably. Even the anger in the belly that had just seen the prefect of Jiangning was gone.
After the meal, Xiang Zhi and a few other maids served fragrant tea, and Yao Yanen made an excuse to go downstairs. Jiang sat next to him and cooked tea. Not long after, another maid came in and said that the uncle had something to do with his grandmother, and Jiang got up and apologized and retired.
There were only two people left in the room, Yun Yao and Yao Yanyu. Yao Yanyu chuckled and said, "Why does the county lord look down on the old man so much? "Old man Yu refers to Yu Honglie, the prefect of Jiangning.
"Hmph, this kind of decay is just silverfish of the country, in addition to exploiting tricks, they are arrogant and lascivious, you take care of face, but I don't bother to pay attention to him."
"Not really, right?" Yao Yanyu thought to herself that if that was the case, why didn't Yushi impeach him?
"Not really?" Yun Yao sneered: "The meal he ate last night cost one hundred and twenty taels of silver, and when he went to bed at night, there were two cardamom girls who warmed the quilt for him, and two other Qin Huai famous prostitutes accompanied him all night." You said he worked hard all day ......" Yun Yao said, sneering, "He's really hard work!" β
Yao Yanyu's face suddenly turned green. While thinking that Yu Honglie was really so good that he bumped into Jin Linwei's hands, and thought that there was something wrong with Jin Linwei's people? Yun Yao is still a big girl who is not married, why do you report everything to her?
Yun Yao saw that Yao Yan didn't speak, and sneered again: "The reason why those imperial historians didn't impeach him is not because he used to be your father's subordinate, and since your father was transferred to the capital and the governor of Jiangnan became vacant, those Beijing officials get an extremely considerable amount of filial piety from Yu Honglie's hands every year, with an amount ranging from five thousand taels to two hundred thousand taels. Those people take people's money, so naturally they have to turn a blind eye. β
Yao Yanyu was directly stunned. After a while, Fang asked: "Since you know so clearly, why don't you tell the prince?" Let the prince invite the holy decree to copy these dog officials! β
"Copy whom? Ten officials and nine greedy, the remaining one is not not greedy, but the family is rich, there is no need to be corrupt, and being an official is just to win a reputation through the ages. Yun Yao said lightly, turning her head to look out the window.
There is another reason why she didn't say it, there have been many events in the court in the past two years, first the eldest prince, then Princess Kangping and the Gaoli Pu Kun entangled, and then Queen Feng, the Feng family, and the earthquake...... One after another, the emperor was about to be crushed. How could the Cheng Wangfu stab these things in front of the emperor to block the emperor?
Outside the window, the confluence of the Yuntian River and the Qingjiang River, the green mountains are like daisies from afar, the spring flowers are blooming in the near distance, the river surface is blue and the waves are vast, the river is endless, the green willows by the river are still around, the reeds are rippling, the rows of iron-blooded sons guard the two luxury ships parked on the dock, the bright yellow embroidered unicorn flag dedicated to Jinlinwei is flying in the wind, rustling, and the end is a magnificent scene.
Yao Yanyu looked at this beautiful mountain and river, and didn't know what to say. She knew that Yun Yao would definitely not lie, and people like her would never disdain to lie. thought that she was repeatedly despised for just concealing her medical skills, and in her opinion, honesty is the most basic sentiment of being a person.
But it was precisely because of her honesty at this time that Yao Yanyu had to ponder. She alludes to her father in every word, in addition to disdain and accusation, is there a reminder? In any case, these people can't be allowed to continue like this under the banner of their father. Otherwise, my father's name would not have been ruined in the hands of these people.
In the evening, Yao Yanyu and Yun Yao still went back to sleep on the boat. Originally, Yao Yanyu wanted to invite Yun Yao to go home with her, but Yun Yao didn't go, so Yao Yanyu had to give up. However, Yao Yanen's wife Jiang made a special trip to the ship to bring an exquisite dinner to the two, and brought some tea, fruits, and all kinds of fresh vegetables.
Yun Yao didn't like to socialize, so she only hid in her bedroom to read and sleep, Yao Yanyu knew that Yu Honglie couldn't even talk about her brother, let alone reveal a little to the Jiang family. He only talked to Jiang after dinner, and then persuaded Jiang to go back under the pretext that he would have to hurry tomorrow.
In the middle of the night, Yao Yanyu couldn't sleep, so she called Xu Shiyang to him and whispered a few words to him. Xu Shiyang took the order and left, and when he came back an hour later, Yao Yanyu was still sitting under the window waiting for him.
"How?" Yao Yanyu frowned and asked.
"Everything is as Madame said, the surname Yu is really not a thing!" Xu Shiyang's face was angry.
Yao Yanyu let out a long sigh, thinking that he really shouldn't be lucky, the people of Jinlinwei were responsible for the security of Yundu City, and the second was to eat intelligence rice, how could the news he got be fake?
"Madam, do you want to ......" Xu Shiyang was as jealous as hatred, if it weren't for Yao Yanyu's earlier advice that he was only allowed to inquire and not to do anything, he would have strangled the dead fat man on the spot.
"It is not our job to punish corrupt officials. The country has six ministries and nine secretaries, and each must perform its own duties. I write a letter, and you send someone to send it back to my father in the capital as soon as possible. β
"Yes." Xu Shiyang bowed and answered.
That night, Yao Yanyu didn't close her eyes all night, and it wasn't until dawn that she wrote a letter to Yao Yuanzhi and put it in an envelope and sealed it with fire paint, and then put away the previous drafts and threw them into the brazier and turned them into ashes.
In order to avoid the entanglement of those corrupt officials, Yao Yanyu ordered to set off before dawn and sail west along the Qingjiang River. Even the original promise to have breakfast with Yao Yanen was not fulfilled. By the time Yao Yanen arrived at the dock early with Yao Yanyu's favorite food at dawn, the two official ships and the two thousand Jinlin guards had long since disappeared.
The uncle of the Yao family sighed helplessly, and stood by the river for half an hour before he reluctantly took his family back to Jiangning City.
Half a month later, Yao Yuanzhi ordered someone to send a letter quickly, scolding Yao Yanen for scolding him for not wanting to make progress, not knowing people, being in the company of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, ruining the Yao family's century-old reputation, and finally being sold by others, maybe he would count the money for others! Only then did Yao Yanen know why the second sister left in a hurry without waiting for him that day.
Not to mention how Yao Yanen defended himself, only said that Yao Yanyu and Yun Yao led two thousand Jinlinwei all the way upstream, ordered people to put away the full guard of honor, covered up the official mark, and only pretended to be an ordinary merchant ship, and usually only replenished vegetables, grains and rice at the small wharf.
Huzhou County Ling Yan waited for more than a month, and finally ushered in the official ship that sent Zhang Laoyuan Ling Chenggong back to his hometown for burial.
It's another set of red tape, not to mention that Yun Yao is impatient, even Yao Yanyu is a little impatient. It's just that the teacher can return to her hometown and settle down decently, no matter how impatient she is, she has to be patient.
Huzhou County ordered Tang Ru Town to arrange a funeral shed, a sacrificial tent and other trivial matters. Zhang Cangbei's coffin was invited down from the boat and placed in the mourning shed, and there were Zhang family's nephews wearing linen and wearing filial piety to worship and cry spirits. Seeing this, Yao Yanyu only felt a burst of sadness in her heart, thinking that the teacher had been lonely all his life, but there were so many filial sons and grandsons crying when he died, I really don't know whether it is happy or sad.
With a secret sigh of emotion, Tang Ru Town stepped forward and asked Yao Yanyu: "Xia Guan has discussed with the old patriarch of the Zhang family to choose a piece of feng shui treasure land for Cheng Gong to make a tomb, but without the order of Mrs. Fuguo, he does not dare to make decisions in private. β
Yao Yanyu said: "It's too late today, I'll go with you tomorrow to have a look." β
Tang Ru Town was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that this second-grade lady is a female streamer, should she go over the mountains and mountains to see the cemetery in person?
Yao Yan didn't speak, so he frowned and asked, "What?" Is there anything wrong? β
"Uh...... Our Huzhou is mountainous and densely forested, and the mountain road is really difficult to walk, and the lower officials are afraid that Mrs. will not be able to endure those hardships. Why don't you send a reliable person to check it out and come back to show it to your wife? β
Yao Yanyu waved her hand, looked at the hundred and ten people wearing linen and filial piety at the spirit shed over there, and said calmly: "No need." The master and I are like father and daughter, I didn't honor him when he was alive, and now that he is gone, I must go to see this place of peace for a hundred years to rest assured. Also, I will guard the tomb of my master here for a year, and the emperor has already given permission. So no matter how hard it is, I'm going to take it. β
As soon as Tang Ru heard that this person was going to live here for a year, his original calmness was no longer there, and he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Yes, then the lower official will go and make arrangements, and early tomorrow morning, the lower official will bring someone to the post house to pick up his wife into the mountain." β
"Okay." Yao Yanyu didn't say any more nonsense to him, turned around and walked in the direction of the post house. Anyway, the people on the side of the spirit shed are all members of the Zhang clan, and they are unwilling to steal the old man's coffin home.
After entering the post house, Yao Yanyu went to the back clean room to bathe, and after changing into a light cyan homely collared deep coat, she came out, but saw Yun Yao sitting on the bamboo mat and looking down at some files, which looked like some contracts. And Ye Yan stood next to him silently, and when he saw Yao Yanyu, he just hugged his fist.
Yao Yanyu sat down opposite Yun Yao, and Yun Yao handed the things in her hand in front of her: "See for yourself." β
"What is this?" Yao Yanyu took the stack of files and looked through them carefully, and couldn't help frowning: "Title deed? Isn't that like? β
"It's a trick by the distant nephew of the old house order to buy a cemetery for the old man order of the old house. He first exchanged land for land, and exchanged their thin fields for other people's good land, saying that it was two acres for one acre, but he bribed Tang Ru Town, did not follow the rules, and positioned the Zhang family's thin fields as good land, one acre for one acre, and he didn't say it before, he had to wait for others to plant all the crops. β
"Those farmers agreed to exchange with him?"
"He is pulling the banner of the holy decree, and he has Tang Ru Town, an accomplice, who dares not to change it? This is the voucher for their replacement of land, which our Jinlinwei people came to collect in advance. Yun Yao's voice was very calm, and there was no anger on her face, but Yao Yanyu knew that she was really angry, even more angry than when she saw Yu Honglie in Jiangning City that day.
"So what do we do?" Yao Yanyu once thought that some people would play tricks, but she didn't expect it to be like this.
Yun Yao narrowed her beautiful Danfeng eyes, hid a little cold light, and said, "Aren't you going to see the cemetery tomorrow?" β
"yes. I didn't worry about these people in the first place, so I wanted to see them for myself. β
"I'll go with you."
"What do you want to do?" Yao Yanyu asked hurriedly.
Yun Yao shook her head lightly: "I don't know yet, I can only go and see it first." β
"Hey!" Yao Yanyu sighed helplessly, thinking that if she knew that it was so troublesome, she should really ask for a few capable people to come, Wei Zhang, Tang Xiaoyi, it really doesn't work He Xi, and even if the second brother can come, this matter is very easy to do.
But Prince Cheng said that he was not at ease, but he sent a county lord again. It's good now, both of them are women, and Yun Yao is that kind of character, and it seems that she can only rely on herself in dealing with the government.
What a annoyance! Thinking of this, Yao Yanyu threw the file in his hand to the small table in front of him with a snap.
Yao Yanyu didn't sleep well all night, her mind was full of cemetery matters, and she didn't have much energy when she woke up the next day. However, Yun Yao is like a person who has nothing to do, she sleeps when she should sleep, eats when she should eat, and nothing can affect her mood when she eats and sleeps, which makes Yao Yanyu envious.
Early the next morning, Tang Ru Town, with the three classes of officials and the warden, came to the post house to greet the county lord and the wife of the auxiliary country, and asked for instructions: The place chosen for the cemetery is at the junction of Huzhou County and Yuzhou County, and you must leave early, and you can't come back on the day if you are late.
Yun Yao ordered two hundred Jinlin guards to follow, and Yao Yanyu also set off with Bai Koyu Guo'er and Xu Shiyang and his wife.
Tang Ru Town also thought that one of these two female nobles was the county lord and the other was the lady of the auxiliary country, and she must be delicate and expensive on the mountain road, so he prepared the carriage and shoulder sedan chair early, and prepared the carriage to bump too hard, so he used the sedan chair to carry the two.
Clinker saw that the two of them were both dressed in riding clothes, and each had a horse, one black and one red. Before Tang Xianling could be surprised, he saw that the posture of the two female ladies who recognized the stirrup on the horse was better than the other. It was called a heroic posture, and the county master's chin fell directly to the ground and shattered into eight petals.
Ye Yan and Xu Shiyang were each responsible for the safety of their own sons, and the other two hundred presiding officers from the Jinlin Wei and the Ministry of Rites and the presiding officers accompanying Qin Tianjian also got on their own horses.
Officials from the Ministry of Rites naturally followed to check the road conditions and the environment of the cemetery to facilitate the arrangements for the day of burial. It was Yao Yanyu's own idea that the people from Qin Tianjian came with her, and she thought that she had to choose the cemetery herself, so she found an expert to help watch feng shui.
Tang Ru Town is a good person, he is worthy of being a person around the emperor, this funeral is really grand.
The group marched out of Huzhou County, led by a person in the Zhang clan who claimed to be Zhang Kaili, the nephew of the Zhang Laoyuan, and kept moving towards the southeast.
The road at the beginning is the official road, although the slope up and down is quite large, but it is spacious and smooth, but after turning into a cluster of mountains and forests, it is different, the mountain road is rugged and narrow, the road surface is still very uneven, and the big car can not pass at all. The people from the Ministry of Rites frowned and said, "This kind of road, I'm afraid that Chenggong's coffin is not easy to walk." β
Zhang Kaili hurriedly said: "This is a big matter, the little ones have already discussed it with the clansmen, and when it comes to the big day, I have to ask the young men in the township to help carry the uncle away." β
The people from the Ministry of Rites listened and said, "At that time, the frame of the county lord and his wife will not be easy to walk. β
Tang Ruding hurriedly said: "Xiaguan has prepared a shoulder sedan chair. β
"No, we can all ride horses." Yun Yao said lightly.
The people from the Ministry of Rites looked at Yao Yanyu again, and Yao Yanyu nodded, indicating that he could also ride a horse. These are small things that don't need to be taken care of.
The group walked along the mountain road for a long time, only to reach three-quarters of the mountain, and there happened to be a few trees missing in front of it, opening up the field of vision to be extremely far away. Zhang Kaili pointed to a basin in the distance and said, "Please look over there for the county lord and his wife, there used to be a lake in that bamboo forest, and the feng shui treasure land that the little ones chose for their uncle is on the slope of the north of that lake." Back to the mountains and water, surrounded by green peaks on both sides, holding a pearl in the arms, feng shui everyone said, here is a rare feng shui treasure, and only our family is a high-ranking uncle with a good taste. β
Yao Yanyu looked in the direction he pointed, but before meeting was a sea of bamboos that could not be seen at a glance, at this time in March, it was the season when the grass grew and the warbler flew, the mountain breeze blew, the bamboo chanted thinly, the blue waves rolled, and it was a pleasant scenery when looking at thousands of miles.
Yao Yanyu was still satisfied with such a beautiful scenery, but when she thought that the hundreds of acres of fertile land were obtained by these guys by bullying others, she felt a little unhappy, and it was not easy to have a seizure at this time, so she only smiled faintly and said: "Looking from here, the scenery is really good." I just don't know exactly what the specific place is. β
"Madame, I don't know, the scenery of that place is definitely better than what we see here." Zhang Kaili said smugly.
"Yes, otherwise how can you reflect your filial piety." Yun Yao snorted lukewarmly.
Zhang Kaili didn't hear the sarcasm in Yun Yao's mouth at all, and put on a look of admiration, and sighed: "What the county lord said is true." The little ones have admired their uncles since they were young, but they didn't have the blessing to serve in front of their uncles, and now their uncles have returned to their roots, as a descendant, how dare they not do their best? β
Yun Yao sneered and stopped talking, obviously speechless about the cheekiness of this thing.
"Let's go quickly, or we really won't be able to go back to the city before dark." Tang Ruding saw that the face of the county lord of Yunyao was not good, and hurriedly interjected and came in.
"Let's go." Yao Yanyu loosened the reins of the horse, turned around and asked, "Is this mountain road going all the way?" β
Zhang Kaili felt that it was still his uncle's apprentice, Mrs. Fuguo, who was easy to talk to, so he hurriedly leaned over and replied: "Yes, Madam, this road goes all the way down, and when you reach the bamboo forest, you will reach it by turning north, and there is no fork in the road." β
"Okay, county lord, how about we compare?" Yao Yanyu didn't pay attention to him at all.
"Okay." Yun Yao smiled faintly, and waved the horsewhip in his hand: "Go!" β
"Gone!" Yao Yanyu kicked the stirrup violently under his feet, and the horsewhip in his hand whipped on Tao Yao's fat buttocks. The highly spiritual horse raised its four hooves and galloped all the way, and Yao Yanyuyue's white figure disappeared into a piece of emerald green in a blink of an eye.
"Drive!" Yun Yao also slapped Tafeng's buttocks, and Tafeng naturally didn't dare to lag behind, and chased all the way.
Ye Yan and Xu Shiyang didn't wait for the others to react, so they rode their horses and chased them out.
"Oops! The ladies and ladies of our Great Cloud Dynasty are really amazing! Zhang Kaili's eyes widened in surprise.
The head of the Ministry of Rites snorted and said, "The county lord is the daughter of Prince Cheng, and the bow and horse riding are among the best in Yundu City. As for the Lady of the Auxiliary State, that is the wife of the General of the Auxiliary Kingdom, isn't horseback riding a piece of cake? β
"Yes, yes, yes! That's what Lord Kamicha said. Zhang Kaili hugged his fists with dog legs: "The little people in the mountains and fields have no knowledge, it's really ...... It's rare and weird. β
"But then again, these two are the best among the nobles and ladies of our Dayun Dynasty, and if you want to find a few more that can compare with these two, I'm afraid it's also very difficult." The chief officer of the Ministry of Rites said, and asked the director of Qin Tianjian next to him with a smile, "Lao He, did you say it?" β
"This is natural. What the old man admires the most is Mrs. Fuguo, a silver needle is invincible, but it can compare with the hundreds of gentlemen in our Dayun Chaotai Hospital. β
"Everyone, don't talk patronizingly, we have to hurry up, we can't let Mrs. Fuguo and the county lord wait for us, right?" Tang Ruding saw that these people were chatting endlessly, so he hurriedly reminded everyone.
"That's right! Hurry. The chief officer of the Ministry of Rites also twitched the horse under his crotch, although it was not as good as the Jinlin guards who galloped away one after another in front, at least the horse could be regarded as running.
Yun Yao and Yao Yanyu galloped through the woods and bamboo seas, and finally stopped next to a rice field. Yao Yanyu took a deep breath, turned her chin, shook the whip in her hand and walked to the rice field, slowly squatting down to look at the scenery in front of her.
Huzhou boundary to the south, spring comes early, to this time the spring ploughing has ended, a paddy field is planted with a ruler high seedlings, the sky and water color smeared a little new green, neat, vigorous.
"This rice field should be the sacrificial field bought for the old courtyard order." Yun Yao stood beside Yao Yanyu and squinted at this paddy field.
"Yes! I now understand what these bastards think. Yao Yanyu sneered: "They think that the master's tomb only occupies a palm-sized place, and the rest of the fertile land is all sacrificial fields, and the harvest here is the cost of the master's tomb sacrifice." The master is lonely and old, and he has no descendants and nephews, didn't these hundreds of acres of fertile land fall into their pockets in the end? β
Yun Yao sneered: "Old Lady Zhang ordered his life to be innocent, but after his death, he was sold by these people. β
"That's a good thing to say. I dare to say that in the future, in order to share these fields, those people will definitely beat out the brains of dogs, believe it or not? Yao Yanyu slowly stood up, stretched out his arms and stretched his waist, "The master has a spirit in the sky, and he will definitely ask the emperor to resign, saying that he doesn't need to go back to Huzhou, just find a place on the outskirts of Yundu City and bury it." β
"It's late!" Yun Yao looked up at the clear blue sky, "The coffins have all been transported here, isn't it too late to say anything?" β
"County Lord, I want to ask you something." Yao Yanyu looked at the turquoise mountains in the distance and whispered.
"Say." Yun Yao followed her gaze, her eyes empty and unfocused.
"I heard that the eldest prince was sent to Lingnan by the emperor to think about it, but I don't know where it is."
Yun Yao was stunned, slowly turned her head to look at Yao Yanyu, and smiled softly after a while: "You're not too stupid, I thought you wouldn't ask this question until you go back." β
"Do you have anything to do with him when you come here?"
"Jinlin Wei secretly reported that the eldest prince found a silver mine at the junction of Yuzhou and Huzhou, and united with local wealthy businessmen to dig silver mines privately, recruit troops and buy horses privately, and have the intention of rebellion."
"Then why didn't the imperial court send troops to clean it up, but instead sent you?" Yao Yanyu also turned her head to stare at Yun Yao and asked in a low voice.
Yun Yao chuckled: "Me? I'm here to accompany you on a tour. β
"County Lord......" Yao Yanyu smiled bitterly, "Although I don't know about military affairs, I just heard you say that the silver mine is at the junction of Huzhou and Yuzhou?" To put it bluntly, it's this one, right? β
"It's still far from here." Yun Yao waved his hand and pointed to the east: "Two hundred miles away." Huzhou, Yuzhou, and Qianzhou are at the junction of three continents, where the terrain is complex, and there are at least four or more ethnic minorities living in a staggered manner. β
"Don't tell me that Prince Cheng sent you here to press the eldest prince back to punish the crime." When Yao Yanyu heard this, she was even more dissatisfied, your father still called you here for such a dangerous situation? Your stepfather gave birth to you, right?
Yun Yao looked at Yao Yanyu's eyes and snorted in a low voice: "Don't you know what to do, I just fell out with my father and came here because of you." β
"What?!" Yao Yanyu was even more confused now.
"I don't understand you." Yun Yao said, waved her hand and smashed the two seedlings, turned around and walked away.
This man is insane, isn't he? Come with me for me to fall out with Prince Cheng? Am I that attractive? Yao Yanyu couldn't figure it out at first, but in the blink of an eye, she seemed to figure it out. For a while, I felt a little unhappy, but I was more helpless.
Wei Zhang has a sentence that is right, no matter what, with Yun Yao coming along, Prince Cheng will pick out the most elite part of Jin Linwei and follow it all the way. And she will always pay attention to the movements here, and her safety is also an extra layer of security.
It's just that this time it's okay if both of them are fine, but if there is something, how can you be embarrassed?
With a little more preoccupation, Yao Yanyu had a lot less patience in the face of Zhang Kaili and Tang Ruding, and when the two of them pointed and repeatedly boasted that this land was very good, this land was good, and it was really a big loss not to buy this land, Yao Yanyu interrupted coldly: "How many people have you bullied to occupy hundreds of acres of fertile land in this area?" To tell the truth, I may be able to let you go, otherwise with the strength of my Lady Fuguo and the county lord, it will be easy to kill a Diao people and send your Qipin County Commander to the prison. β
Zhang Kaili, who was still boasting, was suddenly struck by lightning, and stood there stupidly unable to speak.
Tang Ru still wanted to quibble, but he was pointed at by the long sword drawn out by Xu Shiyang, and he was so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground: "Madam Mingjian, the lower officials don't know about this matter, it was the old patriarch of the Zhang family who said that the two sides were willing to buy and sell, and signed a deed......
"Shut up!" Yao Yanyu stepped forward and shouted coldly: "Zhang Kaili, the third grandson of the old patriarch of the Zhang family, in order to take this piece of 620 acres of fertile land as your own, you promised 200 acres to Tang Ru Town, the magistrate of Huzhou, and allowed him to send the coffin to the old home, even if it can't help him get promoted, you can also help him successfully pass the evaluation of the Ministry of Officials next year." β
Yao Yanyu said, and turned to Tang Ru Town: "Because you Tang Ru Town was originally a protΓ©gΓ© of the former prime minister Feng Zongye, and you have always relied on the relationship of the Feng family to sit firmly in the position of Huzhou County Commander, but now that the Feng family has fallen, you are afraid of losing your official, and it just so happens that you have inquired about my father is the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, and he is a relative of the Ministry of Officials Shangshu Feng Shao Pingfeng." That's why I want to go my way, and I want to join forces to make me, a woman who doesn't know how to do things and doesn't know right from wrong, happy, so as to keep your official position as the county master, right? β
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Dear drops, monthly passes, monthly passes! For the hairy relatives, just cover your pockets and don't pinch them?
Da Zhuzhu kindly said anxiously, there are so many people, and you still don't give the monthly pass! Whining...... Don't bring such an abusive person....